Dan Gleeson is happy to see Cambridge City take a break from Evo-Stik League Southern, Premier Division action tomorrow when his team travel to Redditch for the first qualifying round of the FA Trophy.

Results have been harsh on the Lilywhites, leaving the club second from bottom in the table.

And manager Gleeson hopes that his players can thrive with less pressure on the game, and get the confidence boost they need to start getting the results they deserve.

He said: “Being a cup game the pressure is off us on Saturday.

“Performances have been fantastic to a certain extent. We’re just missing that little bit of quality in the final third.

“We need to start taking our opportunities. It will be a tough game but I feel that we can win every game we go into.”

City’s away form has been better than their performances at home and Gleeson hopes that trend continues this weekend at their Premier Division rivals,

“The important things for us as players is to keep our good performances going,” he said.

“You only really do that by winning games, so this is an important game for us to win.”

St Ives Town are away to Northern League, First Division South side Carlton and are also looking to capitalise on solid performances.

Scoring goals has been a problem for Ricky Marheineke’s men, and tomorrow they will be without forward Danny Kelly and Dubi Ogbonna, with the latter being cup-tied.

“We’ve been playing well,” said Marheineke.

“We have to keep concentrating on our performances because if you play well you give yourself a good chance of winning.

“We have to hope we start scoring goals and converting the chances we create.”

St Neots Town travel to Bedworth looking to carry on from they left off against Kings Langley.

There are injury doubts for Miles Smith and Tom Ward but otherwise manager Andy Davies has a full squad available.

“We’re going into the game aware that the last time we played a team in a lower league to us we lost,” said Davies.

“We know we need to be at our best so hopefully we can take the game to them and do what we do best.”

Royston Town are at home to Northwood, with Soham Town Rangers travelling to Kidsgrove.